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Definition of connective in English:

connective

adjective

Connecting.

‘connective words and phrases’

‘In the non-diagetic music there are fluid connective moments where Africa meets Mississippi meets modern Los Angeles with just the appropriate intimations of the conflict that had been wrought by spatial upheaval.’

‘The railway and its connective powers shaped the character, location, and economy of the small town on the Great Plains of North America.’

‘As in a dream, we see here the generation of a connective logic among objects and images that are not otherwise linked.’

‘A model friend of hers told her about a procedure called a leukotomy, an operation in which connective fibres are cut, severing the connection between two different areas of the brain.’

‘While all three groups employ formal strategies that distance their work from mainstream rock practices, their surface-level musical differences force us to look more deeply for connective threads.’

‘Most added words were two- or three-letter connective words that do not significantly change meaning.’

‘The participants were exposed to medical, social and domestic aspects of mental retardation and therapeutic intervention and connective strategies and the need to help the retarded to lead an independent life.’

‘New hardware, software, networking gear, and wireless devices are being woven together by the connective power of the Internet into a potent, upsetting force.’

‘By that I mean he had a connective mind, one characterized by a wide, ever-growing range of interests, but one that could synthesize and cut to the heart of an issue.’

‘However, there is no explicit connection - the verse about captivity and the sword may serve as a divider between two passages about beasts, rather than a connective statement.’

‘This result is compatible with the findings of previous studies, which indicated that grid and connective networks had worse safety records compared with modern layouts relying on many low-connectivity streets.’

‘But, if you're lucky enough to possess sufficient material wealth for a connection and a connective device, the network itself imposes no obstacles to participation.’

‘In the section below, I explain the construct of the connective self, patriarchal connectivity, and relational rights and responsibilities, which I found to be locally upheld ideas.’

‘The digital age has been predominantly focused on the spatial dimension of recombinant, connective technologies, a preoccupation crystallized in the totemic cyberspace of the computer network.’

‘I find this helpful as it helps me to break out of word-thinking, and sometimes ‘analysing’ a word in terms of images sets off further associations and connective ideas.’

‘They also modeled and practiced relational rights and responsibilities embedded in patriarchal connective networks, as they taught rights and responsibilities to their children.’

‘It is sometimes a question of style - think of the ‘technical’ innovations of black music, or the empathic and connective revolt of the ‘movement of movements’ against capitalism.’

‘Finally, the outer layer of connective cells surrounding the interior portions of the eye, a thin cartilaginous or bony tissue known as the sclera, is formed entirely from migratory neural crest cells.’

‘These ideas, embedded in America's founding documents, are the connective cords by which national unity and civic identity have been maintained in the United States from the 1770s until today.’

‘We tend to take in static works quickly and process the information slowly letting the sequences of a show play out, the connective meanings and conjunctions emerging later.’

noun

1Grammar A word or phrase whose function is to link other linguistic units.

‘she would be more likely to use a temporal connective such as before, after, or then than to use a causal connective’

‘The analysis of as such as a pure connective, liberated both from its antecedent and from its target of predication, may also apply to many of the examples where the antecedent and the modified noun phase are unexpectedly inaccessible.’